Career

He began his career in Austin with a live, call-in format public-access televisioncable TV program.[citation needed] In 1996, Jones switched format to KJFK, hosting a show named The Final Edition.[18] During this time Ron Paul was running for congress and was a guest on Jones’s show several times.[19] The two share many beliefs and have been friends since then.[19] In his early shows, he frequently talked about his belief that the U.S. government was behind the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995,[20] using the incident to put down a growing “states rights movement”.[21] In 1998, he released his first film,America Destroyed By Design.

In 1998, Jones organized a successful effort to build a new Branch Davidian church, as a memorial to those who died during the 1993 fire that ended the government’s siege of the original Branch Davidian complex near Waco, Texas.[22] He often featured the project on his public-access television program and claimed that David Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the ATF during the siege.[18]

In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year’s “Best Austin Talk Radio Host” poll as voted by The Austin Chroniclereaders.[23] Later that year, he was fired from KJFK-FM for refusing to broaden his topics, his viewpoints making the show hard to sell to advertisers, according to the station’s operations manager.[18] Jones stated: “It was purely political, and it came down from on high … I was told 11 weeks ago to lay off Clinton, to lay off all these politicians, to not talk about rebuilding the church, to stop bashing the Marines, A to Z”.[18] He began spreading his show via internet connection from his home.[20]

In early 2000, Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, an open seat swing district based in Austin, Texas. Jones stated that he was running “to be a watchdog on the inside”,[24] but withdrew from the race after a couple of weeks.

In July, a group of Austin Community Access Center (ACAC) programmers claimed that Jones used legal proceedings and ACAC policy to intimidate them or get their shows thrown off the air.[25]

In 2001, his show was syndicated on approximately 100 stations.[20] After the 9/11 terrorist attack, Jones began to speak of a conspiracy by the Bush administration as being behind the attack, which caused a number of the stations that had previously carried him to drop his program.[26]

On June 8, 2006, while on his way to cover a meeting of the Bilderberg group in Ottawa, Canada, Jones was stopped and detained at the Ottawa airport by Canadian authorities who confiscated his passport, camera equipment and most of his belongings. He was later allowed to enter Canada lawfully. Jones said regarding the reason for his immigration hold: “I want to say, on the record, it takes two to tango. I could have handled it better.”[27]

On September 8, 2007, he was arrested while protesting at 6th Avenue and 48th Street in New York City. He was charged with operating a bullhorn without a permit. Two others were also cited for disorderly conduct when his group crashed a live television show featuring Geraldo Rivera. In an article one of Jones’s fellow protesters said, “It was … guerrilla information warfare.”[28]

Media

The Alex Jones Show syndicated radio program is broadcast nationally by the Genesis Communications Network to more than ninety AM and FM radio stations in the United States,[29] and to WWCR Radio shortwave.[citation needed] Live broadcast times are weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. CST and Sundays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. CST. The Sunday broadcast is also broadcast by Emmis Communications‘ KLBJ Radio.

As of 2013, according to Jones, the radio show has over 15 million listeners a week, which would be 2.5 million per day.[30]Also, the show reportedly has a demographic heavier in younger viewers than other conservative pundits.[26] In 2011, he had a larger on-line audience than Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh combined.[31] Author Will Bunch says that Jones was in part a model for Glenn Beck who “synthesized” some of the paranoia of Jones’s commentaries into his persona.[26]

Jones is also the operator of several websites centered on news and information about civil liberties issues, global government and a wide variety of current events topics. As of February 2014, his YouTube channel,TheAlexJonesChannel, has received more than 360 million views and 828,000 subscriptions.[7]

He has been able to mobilize his followers to create Google bomb actions that bring particular terms to the top of a search engine listing, a tactic which has then inspired other online media, such as the Drudge Report, to cover the story.[32]

Views

Jones has expressed a skeptical view of human-induced climate change, describing the underlying science as deceitful and merely a means for global governance and global redistribution of wealth.[33]

In January 2013, Jones was invited to speak on Piers Morgan‘s show after promoting an online petition to deport Morgan due to his support of gun control laws.[47] The interview turned into “a one-person shoutfest, as Jones riffed about guns, oppressive government, the flag, his ancestors’ role in Texan independence, and what flag Morgan would have on his tights if they wrestled”.[47] The event drew widespread coverage,[47] and according toThe Huffington Post, Morgan and others such as Glenn Beck “agreed that Jones was a terrible spokesman for gun rights”.[48] Jones’s appearance on the show was a top trending Twitter topic the following morning.[49]

On June 9, 2013, Jones appeared as a guest on the BBC‘s television show Sunday Politics. After a discussion about conspiracy theories surrounding the Bilderberg Group meetings with presenter Andrew Neil and journalist David Aaronovitch, a critic of such theories, which was dominated by Jones’s shouting and regular interruptions, Andrew Neil ended the item, describing Jones as “an idiot”[50] and “the worst person I’ve ever interviewed”.[51][52] Jones was still shouting, according to Neil on Twitter, until he knew he was off-air.[50][51]

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